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No.
Parents are not allowed to view what your text messages say, and they cannot view your pictures unless they have an order from a court.
The only way they will get a court order is if there is a criminal investigation going on.
This is because you dont have any privacy rights with your parents, hey are allowed to see whatever you are doing, but another child (your friend) HAS privacy rights, meaning your parents cant even go through a friend`s bookbag without permission. Since the messages are shared between you and a friend, they are protected by your friend`s privacy rights as you are sending and receiving messages from a child not guarded by your parent (not your parents child).
Therefore, only a court order can get these messages.
Even then, verizon only has a limited ammount of space on its servers for storing messages (they get hundreds of millions of text messages stored every month). So verizon will delete the text message archives every 2 months or so.
So,
1. parents cant see without a court order from a criminal investigation
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2. A court order still wouldnt matter if the texts were a couple of months old as verizon would have deleted them to save space anyways.
So you are good!

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The Federal Universal Service Charge (FUSC) is a fee that Verizon (and other wireless providers like at&t) charges its customers to pay for its mandated contribution to the Universal Service Fund, which was created by the FCC. This fund has programs that help people in rural communities get telecommunication services for prices similar to those in urban area. They also help low income families get hooked with phone service cheaply, and help pay for teleconferencing systems that are used by rural hospitals, and internet access for schools. It`s a fund that does a lot of good, but make no mistake this is a hidden tax that you are paying. What`s more, there is NOTHING in the law that says Verizon must recoup or recover the costs of its necessary contribution by charging its customers. Passing this surcharge on to you is something that the company itself has decided to do. So, don`t believe your Verizon rep when they try to tell you that there is nothing they can do about this charge because it is a government thing. Yes, it is a government charge, that`s not debatable. But it is not a mandatory governmental surcharge that YOU have to pay, only Verizon is truly on the hook. All telecommunications companies must contribute to this fund, but again, they don`t automatically have to make their customers pay for it. So, when Verizon increases this fee and notifies you of the change, this is something you can fight if the rate increase has a material adverse affect on you. It is a bit vague to say what exactly a material adverse affect is, but there should be enough room in the legal definition for you to claim that any percentage change in this or any fee dramatically alters your budget and therefore you cannot remain a customer under the circumstances. You should be able to withdraw from your contract without paying the early termination fee, but Verizon is going to make it extremely difficult for you to do this, despite your legal right.

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I just chatted with a Verizon representative and this is what he said:

Aloha: Hi, I was wondering what message a person will receive if they are on my block list?

James: Hello! I`d be happy to. They will simply be informed that the Verizon Wireless number they are calling can not be reached.

Aloha: Text and calling?

James: When they call you they will hear. "Welcome to Verizon Wireless. The cellular customer you have called is not available at this time. Please try your call again later."

James: The text will simply send but will not appear on your phone

James: So the sender will think that it`s been sent. You simply won`t get it.

James: The only exception to this is imessage on apple phones which will appear as failed on the senders phone.

James: And needs to be blocked separately.

Aloha: Blocked separately?

James: Yes! Imessage runs through Apple`s servers. So you`ll just need to add the number to the phone`s block list.

James: This will take care of that for you.

James: While you`re stopping by though, how is everything going with your Verizon Wireless service?

Aloha: So, I will need to do both, on phone and on Verizon website?

Aloha: I want to upgrade to a 6 plus but have to pay full to keep my unlimited data?

James: The Verizon website will get everything, except for Imessages (messages sent between iphones). Imessage is a program built into the phone by Apple and Verizon does not have any control over it. You can go to Settings>Phone>Blocked to add numbers to a block list that will prevent Apple`s Imessage.

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My FUSC change states: On October 1st, the FUSC DECREASED to 2.69% of assessable wireless charges, other than separately billed interstate and international long distance charges. The FUSC on these charges DECREASED to 12.9%.
So this is NOT a material adverse effect on my bill right? because is DECREASED? This is still a change, but I can`t use this to get out of my contract , can I?
Thanks for your help.

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This Federal Universal Service Charge fee is legitimate but do not believe the cell phone companies when they say that they have to raise the fee because of the government. The wireless providers are obligated by legislation to contribute to the Universal Service Fund, but they do NOT have to get that money from their customers by upping fees arbitrarily.

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When a mobile customer sets up a number block on their cell phone, the company will then reject all incoming messages from the sender. I believe the sender receives a message similar to, "The recipient can not receive your message at this time." or "Message could not be sent.".

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You can`t tell - the only thing you can do is talk to the person directly and ask - tell them that you have sent some texts and have not seen a response, see what they say. you may not like what they have to say but at least you will know --- I hope this helps.

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